I bought this bra after finding out that Masquerade had gone out of business. It's a very pretty mineral blue color, with delicate embroidery and lovely lacey mesh flower petals obscuring the straight edge at the top of the cup (which helps keep it from showing under clothes).

Unfortunately, this one is too loose in the band. I'm not sure if they start out more snug and this one just relaxed with wear, or if I would need a 28 which was never manufactured, but it is just a hair too loose on the third set of hooks, and definitely shifts on the first set. I will probably try and take it in since there's no smaller size available anymore.

I think it's a little shallow in the cups, too, because I get a little of the orange-in-a-glass effect with the crumpling at the bottom of the cup. Because it's too loose in the band, the cups also don't support as well as they might otherwise. You can see in the photos how there is space between the cup and the breast from some angles, so they just aren't quite doing their job. I think, if the band were tighter, the F cups would be just right as far as volume is concerned. The gore is wonderfully low and tacks perfectly well.

You can't really tell in the side shots, but the curve of the underwire is just a little too steep for the shape of my root, but this is a super common problem for me, and if I can't feel the pressure, I usually ignore it. In this case the bra is perfectly comfortable, aside from the little shifting of the band.

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Updated on Aug 28, 2015 Flag this

• It's too loose on the tightest hooks?

• Yep. I have pictures of it on the loosest and tightest set of hooks, and it is too loose on both.

• That sucks! I didn't wear it very much - it was too loose on the tightest setting for me pretty much from the start. I don't think those satin bands stretch much. Can you alter it? Otherwise it looks pretty nice on you!

• I think you and I just must need something smaller than a Masquerade 30, that's all! I am definitely going to alter it, though, especially because with less stretchiness to worry about, there won't be any uneven tension with my imperfect hand stitching later on.

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